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Paterno Had Close Ties to Sandusky Charity

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:36:21 CST

And the bad publicity continues for Joe Paterno: The former Penn State football coach had deep ties to Jerry Sandusky's Second Mile charity, writes Sarah Ryley in The Daily . Paterno worked closely with Second Mile board members, including longtime chairman Robert Poole, and right around the time Paterno allegedly learned...

SEC Shredded Files to Cover Up Crimes: Whistleblower

Kevin Spak — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:47:40 CDT

Police aren’t generally in the habit of destroying evidence from failed investigations—but the SEC is, according to one whistleblower. SEC attorney Darcy Flynn spilled the beans to Congress in July, saying that the SEC routinely destroys all documents related to its preliminary investigations if they don’t proceed. That appears...

New Orleans Cops Convicted in Bridge Shootings

Tim Karan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:15:29 CDT

All five New Orleans police officers accused of involvement in post-Katrina shootings on a city bridge have been found guilty. Although the jury did not find that their actions constituted murder, it ruled that the cops violated the victims' civil rights, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune . They all face long...

US Military Officers: UFOs Deactivated Nukes

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:51:00 CDT

Extraterrestrials do exist … and they apparently are not fans of our missiles, according to a few former US Air Force officers. Capt. Robert Salas and some of his colleagues will give a press conference in Washington, DC, today to testify that UFOs have appeared at numerous nuclear weapons sites—...

UK, Catholic Church Colluded on Bomb Cover-Up

Kevin Spak — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:30:35 CDT

The UK government conspired with the Catholic Church to cover up a priest’s role in a 1972 bombing that left 9 people dead, according to a new report from Northern Ireland’s police ombudsman. Royal Constables suspected Father James Chesney was behind the triple car bombing, and involved in other IRA...

Alaska Democrats Complain of Palin Email Cover-Up

Kevin Spak — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:02:58 CDT

Democrats have been waiting more than a year for officials to release the thousands of Sarah Palin’s emails, and they’re starting to get suspicious. “I think they’re hiding something, I think this is a travesty of justice,” says the state’s Democratic Party chairwoman. “The law says they have 10 days...

Tillman Parents No Fans of New Afghan General

Rob Quinn — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:19:27 CDT

Pat Tillman's parents say Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal helped cover up the circumstances of their son's death and they want his record carefully considered before he takes charge of the Afghan war, the AP reports. McChrystal approved a citation for Tillman stating he was killed "in the line of devastating...

'Rape' Girl's Death Sparks Chinese Riots

Mary Papenfuss — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:48:00 CDT

Furious Chinese mobs claiming authorities are covering up the murder of a teenage girl yesterday stormed government buildings in southwest China. Several thousand people set fire to county and party buildings and police stations in Wengan county in Guizhou, the BBC reports. Authorities have ruled the death of the girl...

Rumsfeld Dodged Early Iraq Failures: Sanchez

Harry Kimball — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:34:30 CDT

Early mistakes in Iraq—and the extent of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in them—are the subject of a Time excerpt from a book by the former commander of US forces in Iraq, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. Sanchez details an effort by Rumsfeld to get him to agree, on paper,...